“My family never accused Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev.
Billy Kyles of complicity in the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.”
– Martin Luther King III

The August
19, 2003, issue of the Final Call will go down in history as one
of the most “controversial” issues ever. The front page read, Ye Shall
Know the Truth: SCLC, King Family Seek to set Record Straight About King
Assassination accompanied with a picture of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. At first glance I did not expect anything revealing in the article until
I noticed that Eric Muhammad was a co-author of the article. Knowing that
Eric had done some research on Dr. King’s assassination with researchers
Steve Cokely and Corey Johnson, I expected to see some information on the
topic that you would not read in any other mainstream publication. The article
read like any other in the beginning. Not until I came upon a section entitled
Thin Theory? did I get deeply interested in the article. The
following is the first paragraph of the Thin Theory?:[1]

On April 8, 1998, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, her son Dexter King,
Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy and former UN Ambassador Andrew Young met with then-U.S.
Attorney General Janet Reno for two-and-a-half hours. They demanded a new
federal investigation into the King assassination, based on new evidence
that had come to their attention. The family alleges that the Reverends
Jesse L. Jackson and Samuel Billy Kyles are complicit in the assassination
of Dr. King.

When I
read that paragraph I was blown away. I couldn’t believe that the Final
Call would print an article that stated Jesse Jackson and Billy Kyles
were involved in the assassination of Dr. King. The article went on to mention
Kyles’ statement during a news conference on April 3, 1998, saying, “He
was here and I stood there. Only when I moved away so that they would
have a clear shot, then the shot rang out.” To some this FREUDIAN SLIP
along with other information has caused some people to believe that Kyles
was involved in Dr. King’s assassination. Further into the article under
the section entitled Questions Of Perjury some issues are raised
on Jesse’s activity prior to Dr. King’s assassination. The following paragraphs
under this section state the following:[2]

Much of the evidence introduced during the panel involved a question
of foreknowledge on the part of Rev. Jackson, specifically if he was responsible
for removing from the Lorraine Motel, 15 minutes before the assassination,
a community group that was there to protect Dr. King.

“The Justice Department said in their June 2000 report on their
investigation into the evidence and court proceedings that he could not
have possibly instigated their removal. The Justice Department concluded
that they are aware of no document exonerating Jackson; that Jackson said
that he couldn’t have possibly gotten the community group off the balcony,
because he did not even know they were staying in the hotel,” said researcher
activist Steve Cokely.

“Now I raise the question of conspiracy to cover-up,” he continued.
“Now, it is a question of perjury, because documents do exist-that articulate
that Jackson met with the community group-through a report of informants
used by the government at the Lorraine Motel. The document articulates who
was in the meeting and what the results of that meeting were,” he explained.
“Jackson was instrumental, according to the documents, in Billy Kyles being
assigned as the liaison to this community group, known as the Invaders.
There is an authentic government intelligence report that corroborates Jackson’s
involvement with this community group at the Lorraine Motel, contrary to
his denial under oath to the U.S. government investigators.”

Once I
completed the article I went out of my way to tell a lot of people. Never
in my wildest dreams would I have ever thought that the Final Call
would print an article stating that Jesse Jackson and Billy Kyles were involved
in Dr. King’s assassination. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for reality
to kick in.

The Final Call Retracts
King Assassination Article

Complicity is defined as partnership or involvement
in wrongdoing.[3]
– Webster’s Dictionary

On the morning of
Wednesday, August 27, 2003, I heard Dick Gregory giving an interview on
the Chris Askew show that airs on 1380 AM in Atlanta, Georgia. Towards the
end of the interview I decided to call in to ask Mr. Gregory some questions
in regards to Dr. King’s assassination. Unfortunately, Mr. Gregory ended
his interview before I was put on the air. When I was put on the air I started
to talk about issues raised in the Dr. King assassination mentioned in the
previous week’s issue of the Final Call along with Jesse Jackson
lying about how Dr. King’s blood got on his shirt. After I was off the air
I heard Chris state something in regards to some of my statements being
retracted. At first I was upset because I thought that everything I stated
was crossed out. I couldn’t figure out why Chris would say that. Did he
fear of getting in trouble at the radio station? Did something happen that
I wasn’t aware of? When I logged onto my computer at my store I went to
UNCLE TOM Rob Redding’s website.[4]
At the top of his website was a link of the Final Call retracting
a news story. Once I read that I knew that it had to connect to the Dr.
King assassination story that printed the previous week. I clicked on the
link and it took me to the Washington Times’ website. Right before
my eyes the headline read Farrakhan Paper Retracts King Story.
The following are excerpts from the Washington Times’ article on
the Final Call retracting the Dr. King assassination story [emphasis
in bold by Marcus 3X]:[5]

The editor of the Nation of Islam's weekly newspaper has resigned
in the wake of the publication of a story asserting that the family of
Martin Luther King suspects that the Rev. Jesse Jackson was "complicit"
in the 1968 assassination of the civil rights leader.

James G. Muhammad submitted his resignation after issuing
a public apology, ending his 11-year tenure at the Final Call, the paper published by Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of
Islam. Mr. Muhammad declined to talk about the retraction yesterday.

The retraction and apology appeared in this week's edition
of the Final Call.

The article, written by Eric Ture Muhammad and Donna Muhammad,
ran as the lead story under the headline "SCLC, King family seek to
set record straight about King assassination." The story focused on the 45th annual convention of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference held earlier this month in Memphis, Tenn., where King was assassinated.

"I failed in my responsibility to look deeply into the
allegations presented in this article," Mr. Muhammad wrote. "And
it has caused distress to the families of Dr. King, Rev. Jackson ... Min.
Farrakhan and untold others."

The newspaper had reported that in 1998, Coretta Scott King,
King's widow, her son Dexter King, the Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy and former
U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young requested a new federal investigation into
the assassination in a two-hour meeting with Attorney General Janet Reno.

"They demanded a new federal investigation into the King
assassination, based on new evidence that had come to their attention. The
family alleges that the Reverends Jesse L. Jackson and Samuel Billy Kyles
are complicit in the assassination of Dr. King," the newspaper
reported of the April 8, 1998, meeting.

In a speech at the Memphis conference, Martin Luther King III, president of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, noted the 1999 civil case in which his
family challenged the prevailing theory that James Earl Ray, who had confessed
to the shooting of the civil rights leader, was truly to blame.

…"We came here engaged in a civil suit [in 1999].
Seventy overwhelming witnesses were called to testify about who killed Martin
Luther King Jr. America, and some here, say it was James Earl Ray. But James
Earl Ray was just an unknowing patsy."

A jury concluded in 1999 that there was a conspiracy to murder
the civil rights leader and that Ray was designated to take the fall.

The Final Call's retraction said the inaccurate information
concerning Mr. Jackson and Mr. Kyles, which was included midway through
the original article, had "no basis in fact or proof."

"The King family has never said that," said Robert
Vickers, a spokesman for the KingCenter in Atlanta.

"The story attributed it to the King family, but Eric
Muhammad indicated in a [later] conversation with us that it really came
from trial transcripts. What the family did say is that it had taken this
issue as far as it can, and now it was up to [the public and reporters]."

Mr. Jackson is "very upset" about the article, said a source near the King family. Mr. Jackson did not return
calls seeking comment.

In addition to the retraction and apology, the Final Call
added a story on its Web site Friday in which Mr. Fauntroy, who led a House
subcommittee that investigated the King assassination in 1978, contradicted
the earlier article. "There is no evidence that our committee uncovered,
that implicated in any way the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson or Rev. Samuel Billy
Kyles in the conspiracy to kill Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," he
said.

Mr. Kyles is pastor of MonumentalBaptistChurch in Memphis and a Clinton appointee
to the Advisory Committee for Religious Freedom Abroad. He did not return calls yesterday.

Several phone numbers obtained for one of the article's authors,
Eric Ture Muhammad, a one-time spokesman for former Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney,
Georgia Democrat, were disconnected, and he did not respond to e-mail inquiries.

His personal Web site includes several references to the jury
findings in the Kings' 1999 case. "For more than 35 years, practically
no challenge from the masses of the people — those who benefited from Dr.
King's work most — to solve the murder and bring the surviving culprits
to justice," Mr. Muhammad writes in a posting, adding that among blacks
there is a "leadership who pimps the legacy of Dr. King for personal
gain."

After reading the
article on the Washington Times’ website I was confused and angered
about the retraction. Before I decided to make any conclusions on the subject
I decided to go to the Final Call’s website to see if any information
was posted on this matter. Knowing the history of the mainstream press I
knew that I couldn’t take their story at face value. I figured the best
place to go to find out the “truth” on the subject was the Final Call’s
website that had the following posted [text in bold is not emphasis by Marcus
3X]:[6]

In our August 19, 2003 edition of The Final Call newspaper, Vol.
22, Number 46, our front page cover sub- headline stated: "SCLC, King
family seek to set the record straight about King assassination" with
the front page headline: "Ye Shall Know the Truth." There was
an accompanying photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also on the cover.

On page 3 of that edition, the headline reads: "SCLC returns to Memphis,"
with the sub-headline: "To reclaim civil rights legacy and free the
future, Dr. King’s children say truth of his assassination must be made
known."

The published story on page 30, column 2 under the caption "Thin
theory?" included the following statement: "On April 8, 1998,
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, her son Dexter King, Reverend Walter E. Fauntroy
and former UN Ambassador Andrew Young met with then-U.S. Attorney General
Janet Reno for two-and-a half hours. They demanded a new federal investigation
into the King assassination, based on new evidence that had come to their
attention. The family alleges that the Reverends Jesse L. Jackson and Samuel
Billy Kyles are complicit in the assassination of Dr. King."

The statement that, "The family alleges that the Reverends Jesse L.
Jackson and Samuel Billy Kyles are complicit in the assassination of Dr.
King" was wrongfully and erroneously attributed to the King Family.

The Final Call retracts this statement as having no basis in
fact or proof.

The Final Call deeply regrets this error in the publishing of the
story, and extends our sincere apologies to The King Family, Reverend Jesse
L. Jackson and Reverend Billy Kyles.

TheFinal Call hopes that the stories in this edition will
aid in the correction of this erroneous allegation.

The statement that,
"The family alleges that the Reverends Jesse L. Jackson and Samuel
Billy Kyles are complicit in the assassination of Dr. King" apparently
is the source of all the controversy. The Final Call emphasized in
bold that the statement has no basis in fact or proof. The same day I read
these articles I had a face-to-face talk with Eric Muhammad. The statement
was supposedly worded incorrectly and needed correcting. Did James Muhammad
deserve to resign as the editor of the Final Call because of one
“incorrectly” written sentence? In my opinion, NO! Did Eric Muhammad deserve
to resign as a journalist for the Final Call because of one “incorrectly”
written sentence? In my opinion, NO! Both men put in too much time at the
Final Call to step down because of one “incorrectly” written sentence.
If you read Eric’s article you will not find any false information attributed
to the King family. As a human, who is subject to error, it was only a matter
of time before the editor would miss a sentence that needed “correction”
before the paper made it to the streets. I am sure that there have been
times in the past that certain items made it to the paper that should have
been “corrected.” With that said I believe that both men did not deserve
to resign at the Final Call especially when anyone can go to the
King family’s own website (www.thekingcenter.org) and find information that
suggests that Jesse Jackson and Billy Kyles were involved in wrongdoing
moments before Dr. King was assassinated.[7]
It makes no sense for Martin Luther King III to rebuke the Dr. King assassination
article when his family’s website contains information in agreement with
the article. In the remainder of this article I am going to document information
that suggests that the Jesse Jackson and Billy Kyles were involved in wrongdoing
moments before and after Dr. King’s assassination.

Before I discuss
some of the strange activities of Jesse Jackson surrounding Dr. King’s assassination
it must be known that Dr. King and Jesse did not have a good relationship,
as the mainstream media would like for us to believe. Dr. King didn’t trust
Jesse. Dr. King was able to convince William Rutherford, a businessman from
Chicago, to serve as executive director of SCLC for one-year. One of the
first tasks Dr. King gave to William was to find out if Jesse was sincerely
interested being involved with SCLC [emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[8]

King’s other mission for Rutherford involved a third staff member
about whom King was concerned. “He said, ‘The second thing I want you
to do is, Jesse Jackson’s so independent, I either want him in SCLC or out---you
go whichever way you want to, but one way or the other, he’s a part of SCLC
or he’s not a part of SCLC.’”

…Although part of the tension was rooted in the Atlanta staffers’
desire to keep a tight rein on Chicago-based programs, much of the trouble
stemmed from a distrust of Jackson’s personal motives.
“Jesse was really an outsider in a way, striving very hard to get in, to
be accepted, to be respected,” recalled Calvin Morris, who became associate
director of Breadbasket during that winter. “The doubt about Jesse is what
it is for, is it for Jesse or for the movement?” Stanley Levison said to
Coretta King six months later. “I know on this Martin had many deep doubts.”
[James] Bevel often defended Jackson, telling King, “He’s just crude ‘cause
he’s young.” King disagreed, saying, “No, he’s ambitious,” and voiced
his unease to close friends. “Jesse had irritating ways,” King’s Chicago
confidant Chauncey Eskridge explained. “I don’t think we cared much for
him.”

…Rutherford appreciated that King’s unhappiness with Jackson
went beyond spirit and ideology. “He didn’t trust Jesse, he didn’t even
like Jesse…If you ask me if there was any suspicion about Jesse motives
and even devotion to the movement, I would say categorically yes, there
was---considerable. And we talked about it.”

The Saturday before
Dr. King’s assassination Dr. King yelled at Jesse Jackson after leaving
a meeting disgruntled. According to Andrew Young he never witnessed Dr.
King yell at anyone publicly like he did towards Jesse. This incident shows
how Dr. King felt about Jesse [emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[9]

At that meeting, in a study at Ebenzer church, King “just jumped
on everybody,” says Young. “He said we’d let him down. That we all had our
own agendas and constantly left everything up to him. He said, ‘I can’t
take all of this on by myself. I need you to take your share of the load.’”
Finally came his outburst of exasperation, far more widely retold, with
Jackson, who had kept pressing for alterations of the Poor People’s Campaign:
King had fumed out of the room, with Jackson trailing after him,
along with Young. Jackson called from the top of the stairs as King and
Abernathy were turning on the landing below, “Doc?Doc?” Young recalls, “Jesse
tried to encourage him, but it was sort of a glib thing, you know, ‘Don’t
worry, everything’s going to be all right.’” At that, King wheeled and
pointed a finger up at Jackson: “Jesse, everything’s not going
to be all right. If things keep going the way they’re going now, it’s not
SCLC but the whole country that’s in trouble. I’m not asking, Support me.
I don’t need this. But if you’re so interested in doing your own thing,
that you can’t do what this organization’s structured to do, if you want
to carve out your own niche in society, go ahead. But for God’s sake don’t
bother me!” Jackson was left with a blasted and desolate stare.
Young remembers, “It was shocking in a sense that he never talked
to anybody like that. Though he’d often been mad at me, nobody had ever
seen him mad like that before.”

…That challenge turned out to be the last substantive words
King ever passed on to Jackson.

With a better understanding
of the feelings Dr. King had for Jesse Jackson prior to his assassination
we can now move forward to April 4, 1968. Prior to Dr. King’s assassination
a local Memphis community group known as the Invaders were asked to help
with the April 8 march. On the night of April 1, 1968, the Invaders had
a meeting with Hosea Williams, James Bevel, Jesse Jackson, and James Orange.[10]
To help their participation in the planning of the march the Invaders moved
into rooms 315 and 316 located south of Dr. King’s room on April 3, 1968,
at the Lorraine Motel. Since the Invaders were short on money SCLC had agreed
to pick up some of the Invaders’ motel bills.[11]
Less than thirty minutes before Dr. King was assassinated a strange event
took place with the Invaders [emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[12]

My interviews with the Invaders turned up a few notable observations.
Charles “Izzy” Harrington was one of the Invaders occupying rooms 315 and
316 farther along the balcony from Dr. King’s room 306 on April 3 and 4.

…Izzy said that at about 5:45 or 5:50 pm on April 4, a maid
knocked on his door and told him that the Invaders were going to have to
leave the motel, because Dr. King’s group was no longer going to pay their
bill (previously, Invader Charles Ballard had also recalled this incident).
When Izzy asked who had given her those instructions, she said Reverend
(Jesse) Jackson. Izzy and the rest of the Invaders gathered
up their things and left, some in Cabbage’s blue Mustang, others on foot.
This explained the sudden departure recorded in Patrolman Richmond’s
log, which was compiled from his surveillance post in the fire station across
the street.

Izzy recalled that they had only been off the motel property
for about fifteen minutes when they heard the sirens and learned about the
shootings. They ran back toward the motel only to find roadblocks (Public
Works Department wooden horses) were in place on Mulberry Street. He said
it couldn’t have been more than ten minutes after the shooting that they
were put up. His opinion was that someone knew what was going to happened
and had them ready.

Since when can anyone
sit in a motel/hotel room around 5:45 pm without the room being paid for?
Clearly this evacuation of the Invaders appears to be suspicious. I would
like to know why would the Invaders simply leave the Lorraine Motel without
asking Dr. King or someone with SCLC especially Jesse Jackson why so long
after checkout time they were being evacuated? Without being RUSHED is it
possible for the Invaders to evacuate two rooms, gather all of their belongings,
pack their belongings in Charles Cabbage’s car, turn in their motel keys,
and proceed some distance from the motel within 15 minutes? Remember Dr.
King was shot sometime around 6 pm. I am not saying that the evacuation
of the Invaders at the request of Jesse didn’t take place. I am only questioning
the timing. I can see the Invaders leaving the Lorraine Motel after being
told at 5:45 pm possible if someone within the group RUSHED them. I thought
that it was interesting to know that SCLC had an executive staff meeting
that ended around the time the Invaders were told to leave the motel.[13]
I personally believe that the Invaders were told to leave closer to 5:30
pm if they were not rushed. Cabbage gave this description of the Invaders
sudden evacuation from the Lorraine Motel [emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[14]

Cabbage described the Invaders’ sudden departure within 11 minutes
of the shooting. He said that a member of the Lorraine staff knocked on
their door. It must have been after 5:30 pm. They were
told that they had to leave because SCLC was no longer going to pay their
bill. This appeared strange because the bill for that evening’s lodging
would have clearly been paid, or obligated to be paid, much earlier in the
day. Though it made no sense from any standpoint, he said they accepted
the order, which he said they were told came from Reverend Jesse Jackson.
They quickly packed up their things and began to leave around 10 minutes
before 6 pm. The timing of their departure was later confirmed by the testimony
of MPD Captain Willie B. Richmond (retired), who noted the event
in his surveillance report developed from his observation post inside and
at the rear of the fire station. Captain Richmond also testified that around
the same time, he observed Reverend Kyles knock on King’s door. Richmond
said Dr. King opened the door, spoke with him briefly, and then closed the
door. Kyles then walked some distance north on the balcony and stood at
the railing. This account, of course, contradicted the story Kyles has told
for over three decades, in which he said he was in King’s room for about
30 to 45 minutes before the shooting.

At one point when they were being asked to leave, Cabbage said,
he observed the Reverend Jesse Jackson standing on the ground near the
swimming pool, which was opposite the balcony rooms occupied by Dr. King
and the Invaders. He said that Reverend Jackson kept glancing impatiently
at his watch. (It must be said, however, that the group was running
late for their scheduled dinner at Reverend Kyles’ home.)

It is more difficult to understand why Jackson would have caused
them to be summarily evicted (if he indeed did so) at that hour so near
the time of the killing. Reverend Jackson has reportedly stated subsequently
that he didn’t even remember the Invaders were staying at the Lorraine.

Cabbage never understood it. In his testimony, he also confirmed
that the Invaders occupying the Lorraine rooms were quite
heavily armed as was their usual custom because of the hostility of the
MPD.

Charles Cabbage’s
story also raises questions and gives a reason why it was important to have
them removed from their rooms prior to Dr. King’s assassination. If the
Invaders were armed they could have returned gunfire towards the direction
of the assassin and possibly prevented the false pointing initiated by MPD
informant Marrell McCollough. In order to prevent any possible return gunfire
someone had to make sure that the Invaders were not at the Lorraine Motel
(especially the balcony). According to Charles Ballard and Charles Harrington
the maid stated the order for their removal from the motel came from Jesse
Jackson. Cabbage also noticed that Jesse was impatiently glancing at his
watch. William Pepper suggested that Jesse was looking at his watch because
the SCLC group was running late for dinner. That is an assumption. Jesse
could have been impatiently glancing at his watch because the Invaders evacuation
was getting close to Dr. King’s appearance on the balcony. Both scenarios
are assumptions but one can’t mention only one scenario, as being the reason
for Jesse impatiently glancing at his watch. It wasn’t until Dr. King came
onto the balcony Jesse was invited to go to dinner.[15]
For Dr. King to invite Jesse to dinner at the last minute lets you know
how Dr. King felt about Jesse. By the time Dr. King came onto the balcony
the Invaders had to be off of the motel property.

Before Dr. King came
onto the balcony Jesse Jackson had a conversation with Chauncey Eskridge
in regards to Jesse not having on a tie.[16]
Jesse, wearing brown trousers and a matching turtleneck, insisted that he
didn’t need to wear a tie. Why would Jesse refuse to wear a tie when it
was standard procedure? I offer this passage as a possible reason [emphasis
in bold by Marcus 3X]:[17]

In Memphis, the Alpha 184 team leader introduced Warren and Murphy
to Lieutenant Eli Arkin of the MPD intelligence bureau. Arkin reportedly
told them that their assistance was essential to save the city that Dr.
King’s forces were preparing to burn down. They then met up with their contact
around 1 p.m. Warren named him and said he believed he was a CIA agent.
They were taken to their perch on top of the Illinois Central Railroad building
where they assumed a state of readiness. In the course of the afternoon
the team leader put Warren on the radio with MPD inspector Sam Evans
who described the layout of the Lorraine. He also advised
them that “friendlies would not be wearing ties.” (The only government
agent we have identified who was physically close to Dr. King at the time
of the killing was Marrell McCollough who was not wearing a tie.
It is also interesting to note that James [Earl Ray] was wearing a tie although
Raul, reportedly, was not.)

Immediately when
Dr. King came on the balcony Jesse Jackson CRIED OUT, “OUR LEADER!”[18]
Jesse’s CRYING OUT froze Dr. King on the balcony and possibly used as a
signal to let the assassin know that the target is in position to be shot.
Not long after Jesse CRIED OUT to Dr. King someone fired at least one shot
that killed Dr. King. The first person to reach Dr. King was Ralph Abernathy.
Ralph tried to talk to Dr. King but he wasn’t getting a response. Ralph
noticed Billy Kyles crying like a baby and told him to call for an ambulance.
Kyles tried to use the phones but he couldn’t get a connection. It was later
revealed that the lady operating the switchboard had suffered a heart attack.[19]
As you can see certain people in key positions that could have possibly
prevented Dr. King from being killed were either told to leave the Lorraine
Motel or possibly killed. Ernestine Campbell along with her husband owned
the Trumpet Hotel located by the Lorraine Motel. Moments before and after
Dr. King was shot she made the following observation [emphasis in bold by
Marcus 3X]:[20]

…No one had ever talked to her or asked her about what she saw
on that fateful afternoon. Ernestine said she left the hotel and started
for home just before 6 p.m., driving her gold-bronze Cadillac up Butler
and turning right on Mulberry. As she passed the Lorraine driveway on Butler,
she saw Dr. King standing on the balcony. She didn’t hear anything because
she had the car windows up and the radio on. As she turned the corner on
Mulberry she looked up and saw Dr. King lying on the balcony. She thought
he’d had a heart attack. She stopped for a minute or two at the driveway,
wondering why people weren’t racing to the balcony. Possibly she had arrived
at the driveway when everyone was still in a state of shock.

Her attention was in particular drawn to Jesse Jackson who
she said had one foot on the first step of the stairway looking up to the
balcony while bent over “…putting something into a suit bag.”

Jesse Jackson looked
startled when Ernestine Campbell noticed him putting something in a suit
bag.[21]
What item could Jesse possibly be placing in the suit bag? Was the suit
bag noticed by Ernestine the same tote bag Don Rose noticed Jesse carrying
around Chicago shortly after Dr. King’s assassination? Your guess is as
good as mine but it is worth investigating. Jesse’s startled appearance
suggests that he was placing something in the suit bag that he did not want
anyone to notice.

Jesse Jackson was
the first person to call Dr. King’s wife to let her know about her husband
being shot.[22]
In my opinion this was a good move on Jesse’s behalf. By him being the first
person to call Dr. King’s wife he would make himself appear innocent in
the eyes of many especially Dr. King’s family. After Dr. King and others
left for the hospital Jesse stayed around the crime scene telling people
not to speak to the media.[23]
Do you think Jesse did what he was telling others to do? Hell No! Check
out what Jesse told the media [emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[24]

That night in Memphis, after King’s body had been taken away,
Jackson was meandering about outside the motel in a pursing swirl of media,
microphones crowding under his chin at his every move, reporters calling
after him, “Jesse? Reverend?-“

“I need to see Dr. King,” he insisted. Turning to someone passing,
he said, “Can I get a ride to see Dr. King?”

“Reverend, could you tell us just what happened, please?”

He swerved away again from the thrusting mikes and tape recorders
with a glower, his head lowered in the camera lights. “Can you wait a little
while?”

“Would you tell me just what happened so we can get this film
in, please?”

At last, he could not refrain. “People were, some in pandemonium,
some in shock, some were hollering, ‘Oh God.’ And, uh…” He glanced up at
an angle, peering into the middle distance above him as if meditating: “And
I immediately started running upstairs to where he was. And I caught his
head. And I tried to feel his head. And I, asked him, ‘Dr. King, do you
hear me? Dr. King, do you hear me? And he didn’t say anything. And I tried
to—to hold his head. But by then . . .”

Jesse Jackson told
a lie to the media. Jesse never held Dr. King. Jesse told that lie to place
himself next to Dr. King before he died for self-promotion. Hosea Williams
had this to say when he noticed Jesse talking to the media:[25]

“I was in my room. I looked out and saw Jesse talking to these
TV people. I came out to hear what was being said. I heard Jesse say, ‘Yes,
I was the last man in the world King spoke to.’ I knew Jesse was lying because
Solomon Jones was the one and I had a feeling about what Jesse was trying
to pull. I climbed over the railing and was going to stomp him into the
ground but a cop grabbed me. I called Jesse a dirty, stinking, lying so-and-so,
or something like that. I don’t remember the exact words. What I did was
wrong, I guess, but I am a very high tempered man. I had no hang-ups about
Jesse talking to the press. That was okay, but why lie? Why capitalize on
another man’s name and image---dead man, who can’t speak for himself?”

It would have been
good for the media to film Hosea Williams kicking Jesse Jackson’s ass before
the world after telling that lie. Jesse should have been happy that the
cop stopped Hosea. If Hosea had been able to kick Jesse’s ass for telling
a lie Jesse’s image would have been tarnished. The following are comments
made by other people that were witnesses to Dr. King’s assassination:[26]

Said Andrew Young, the SCLC executive director who went on to
become a United States congressman, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,
and mayor of Atlanta: “The blood, the cradling, were all things I read in
the newspaper and they are all mysteries to me.”

King’s chosen successor as leader of the SCLC, the Reverend Ralph
D. Abernathy, said, “I am sure Reverend Jackson would not say to me that
he cradled Dr. King. I am sure that Reverend Jackson would realize that
I was the person who was on the balcony with Dr. King and did not leave
his side until he was pronounced dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Memphis.
I am sure that he would not say to me that he even came near Dr. King after
DOC was shot.”

Chicago musician Ben Branch was with Jackson in the courtyard
of the motel when the shooting occurred. “My guess is that Jesse smeared
the blood on his shirt after getting it off the balcony. But who knows where
he got it from? All I can say is that Jesse didn’t touch him.”

James Bevel, who
was responsible for bringing Jesse Jackson to Dr. King’s organization, had
these words to say about Jesse’s bloody shirt lie:[27]

Among the journalists who would later avail themselves of Bevel’s
broodings for dismissive profiles of Jackson was Gail Sheehy, who quoted
him as inveighing that “to prostitute” and “lie about the crucifixion of
a prophet within a race” for the sake of “one’s own self-aggrandizement”
was “the most gruesome crime a man can commit.”

According to Hosea
Williams Jesse Jackson told him on the night of the assassination that he
was ill and was going to Chicago to get medication.[28]
The next morning Hosea and others saw Jesse on the NBC Today Show promoting
himself with the blood stained shirt that supposedly came from Jesse holding
Dr. King. Mainstream media outlets such as Playboy and Time
magazine published articles promoting Jesse’s bloody shirt lie and calling
him the heir apparent to Dr. King.[29]
According to Barbara Reynolds at least 100 articles promoted Jesse and his
bloody shirt lie.[30]
Attendance at Jesse’s Operation Breadbasket’s memorial service increased
from 400 (Saturday before Dr. King assassination) to 4000 (Saturday after
Dr. King assassination).[31]
Reporter Betty Washington noticed Jesse trying to sound like Dr. King during
a speech:[32]

“His voice, his intonation, his speech patterns-everything. I
felt like he was imitating Dr. King. Their voices don’t sound alike, but
somehow the way he emphasized his words, the way he used some of King’s
favorite expressions…Well, I remember it had some of the people in the audience
in hysterics. The way they acted it was as if King was being reincarnated
in that man. It affected me immensely,” she said. “It was like he was trying
to be King, like something staged.”

I don’t care what
anyone says the mainstream media/establishment doesn’t show that type of
favoritism to a righteous Blackman. Only if Jesse Jackson made a deal with
the devil to help Dr. King get killed would he receive the promotion by
the mainstream media/establishment as the new “leader” of Black America.
That’s exactly what happened. The mainstream media/establishment would never
endorse anyone especially a Blackman, who was threatening. The New York
Times in 1972 even labeled Jesse as non-threatening.[33]
Do you actually believe Jesse was given permission to be a member of the
Council of Foreign Relations and a run for president of the United States
without proving his loyalty?

Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby meeting with Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion
(aka Whorehouse). What is a Christian minister doing at a whorehouse?

As Steve Cokely has
stated publicly it isn’t a crime for Jesse Jackson to lie about the blood
on his shirt and holding Dr. King immediately after he was shot. Jesse’s
lies does draw into question his CHARACTER. Here is a question for you to
ponder. Considering Dr. King’s distrust of Jesse, Jesse’s removal of the
Invaders from the Lorraine Motel and Jesse’s lies/self-promotion with the
assistance of the mainstream media/establishment moments after Dr. King
was killed would a person of that CHARACTER be willing to help facilitate
a murder in exchange for world wide recognition as Black America’s top leader?
My assessment of Jesse’s CHARACTER makes me believe that he is the type
of person that would conspire to have Dr. King assassinated. And that’s
exactly what happened in my opinion.

The Strange Behavior
of Billy Kyles

"The individual is handicapped
by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe
it exists."
- J. Edgar Hoover

Before I start any
discussion on Billy Kyles it must be understood that the King family’s attorney
had revealed that Kyles was a Memphis Police Department informant. The King
family’s attorney wrote this about Kyles [emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[34]

Jim Kellum, who had worked with the MPD intelligence bureau,
confirmed to me for the first time on December 20, 1994, that he had learned
that Reverend Billy Kyles had been an informant during 1967-1968.
His source, who had been an administrative aide and secretary in the intelligence
bureau, confirmed to me that Kyles had indeed supplied them with information
on a regular basis but was unclear as to the precise dates of this service
and appeared too nervous about going into detail.

On the day that Dr.
King was assassinated a dinner was scheduled to take place at the home of
Billy Kyles at 5 p.m. For years Kyles has claimed that he was in Dr. King’s
room during the last hour of Dr. King’s life. Here is Kyles’ story:[35]

Ralph was dressed when I got in [to room 306] and Martin was
still dressing…Ralph said, “All right now, Billy. I don’t want you fooling
me tonight. Are we going to have soul food? Now if we get over there and
get some filet mignon or T-bone, you’re going to flunk…” Martin says, “Yeah,
we don’t want it to be like that preacher’s house we went to in Atlanta,
that great big house. We …had some ham- a ham bone-and there wasn’t no meat
on it. We had Kool Aid and it wasn’t even sweet…” I said, “You just get
ready. You’re late.” I had told them 5:00 and I told my wife 6:00. I said,
“Hurry up. Let’s go.”

He was in a real good mood…It may have been from what they accomplished
in the staff meeting…when Martin’s relaxed he’s relaxed…He’d put his shirt
on. He couldn’t find his tie. And he thought the staff was playing games
with him, but we did find it in the drawer. When he put the shirt on, it
was too tight. And I said, “Oh, Doctor, you’re getting fat!” He said, “Yeah,
I’m doing that.”…

Ralph is still doing something. He’s very slow. And we went out
together, Dr. King and myself, and stood side by side…Solomon Jones [King’s
local driver] said something about it was getting cool and to get your coat…I
was greeting some of the people I had not seen…Martin was leaning over the
railing…

I called to Ralph to come on. They were getting ready to load
up. I said, “I’ll come down. Wait a minute. Somebody can ride with me.”
As I turned and got maybe five steps away this noise sounded. Like a firecracker.

In response to Billy
Kyles’ story Hosea Williams stated that it was false.[36]
During most of the afternoon until minutes before Dr. King was assassinated
SCLC had an executive staff meeting. Since Kyles was not a member of SCLC
he wasn’t at the meeting. Ralph Abernathy had this to say about Kyles’ story
[emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[37]

Regarding Billy Kyles’s testimony Ralph said angrily, “If
Billy Kyles said that, then Billy Kyles is a liar.” Ralph said Kyles
had at no time been in the room with them. Ralph had just slapped some cologne
on his face when he heard the shot and ran outside to cradle his friend
in his arms. Kyles was on the balcony.

Retired MPD Captain
Willie Richmond was doing surveillance on Dr. King at the Lorraine Motel
from a fire station that was located across the street. During his surveillance
Billy Kyles never entered Dr. King’s room. Minutes before Dr. King came
onto the balcony to be assassinated Kyles knocked on Dr. King’s door, exchanged
a few words with Dr. King, Dr. King then closed the door, and Kyles proceeded
some distance north on the balcony. [38]
According to statements by Hosea Williams, Ralph Abernathy, and Willie Richmond
Kyles never entered Dr. King’s room. During the 1999 wrongful death civil
action King v. Jowers Kyles testified that Willie was an alcoholic,
who died.[39]
Unknowingly to Kyles Willie testified during the same trial a few days earlier.
Kyles attempted to discredit Willie by making a false statement.

During the cross
examination of Billy Kyles the King family’s legal team played a video news
conference dated April 3, 1998. During the news conference Kyles said, “He
was here and I stood there. Only when I moved away so that they would
have a clear shot, then the shot rang out.” Kyles suggested that he
was standing next Dr. King seconds before he was assassinated. This statement
by Kyles is false. After Kyles knocked on Dr. King’s door to get him unto
the balcony he moved a distance north on the balcony making sure he wasn’t
close to Dr. King when he came out of his room.[40]
Ralph Abernathy’s autobiography also suggests that Kyles was nowhere near
Dr. King when he was exposed on the balcony [emphasis in bold by Marcus3X]:[41]

He started toward the door. “Ok,” he said. “I’ll wait on the
balcony.”

As I was putting cologne on my face, I heard him talking to Jesse,
who was down below in the courtyard. I was pleased to hear the conversation
and warmth in Martin’s voice. Relations between them had been cool for
the past few days, ever since the exchange after the Saturday meeting.
Now Martin was clearly going out of his way to assure Jesse that everything
was all right.

“Jesse,” he called out, “I want you to go to dinner with us tonight.”

Then I heard Billy Kyle’s voice, coming from the opposite
end of the balcony.

“Jesse took care of that even before we had a chance to invite
you,” he yelled. “But tell Jesse not to invite too many other people.”

Ralph
Abernathy’s recollection of Billy Kyles’ position on the balcony and yelling
to Dr. King places him nowhere near Dr. King, who was standing in front
of his room. Why would Kyles’ lie about his whereabouts during Dr. King’s
final hours? In my opinion Kyles lied about his position for self-promotion
and to make himself appear to be innocent instead of suspicious. If Kyles
knew Dr. King was going to get shot why would he stand next to Dr. King
while wearing a tie? Remember MPD inspector Sam Evans said, “friendlies
would not be wearing ties.”[42]
Knowing that Kyles was a MPD informant it makes sense why he would stay
a considerable distance from Dr. King on the balcony. Kyles hurried Dr.
King out of his room.[43]
After hurrying Dr. King out of his room Kyles stayed a considerable distance
from Dr. King’s door on the north end of the balcony so that he wouldn’t
get shot. During the 1993 television trial of James Earl Ray Billy Kyles
was the prosecutions first witness. During his cross examination by William
Pepper it appears that Kyles was covering up another issue [emphasis in
bold by Marcus 3X]:[44]

I asked Kyles why, when he lived in Memphis, he had registered
in room 312 at the Lorraine. He answered that he took a room in the event
that someone else coming in without a reservation might need it. But in
the next breath he went on to say, “As it turned out, A.D. King did come
in, his brother came in,” implying that A.D. was going to take the room.
He further stated that he ended up taking A.D. to his room. In fact A.D.
registered in room 201.

Billy Kyles registered
room 312 at the Lorraine Motel on April 3 & 4, 1968.[45]
During Kyles’ testimony he tried to cover-up his registering of room 312.
Clearly the room wasn’t for A.D. [Read Dexter King’s memoir to learn about
A.D. King’s mysterious death.][46]
Why would Kyles register for a room for two days not knowing if anyone would
need the room? I will propose this as a possible scenario. There is still
a controversy dealing with Dr. King’s room being moved from a secure lower
level location to the balcony. If Dr. King did stay in a room on the lower
level could room 312 been another option to have Dr. King on the balcony
for his assassination? I suggest this as a possible option. Room 312 could
have been used for other reasons but I would not be surprised if it was
an additional option to have Dr. King exposed on the balcony.

There is another
important issue surrounding Billy Kyles. There is controversy as to whether
Kyles requested MPD Inspector Sam Evans to remove TACT 10 units away from
the Lorraine Motel the day before Dr. King was assassinated [emphasis in
bold by Marcus 3X]:[47]

In respect of the removal of the TACT 10 unit from the vicinity
of the Lorraine, the official position has always been that they were removed
at the request of an unnamed member of Dr. King’s party. Posner repeats
this position. Had he heard the testimony of Professor Phillip Melanson
in the civil action or read either Melanson’s or my writing on this issue,
he would have learned that Inspector Sam Evans told both of us on separate
occasions that it was Reverend Kyles – whom he said he knew very well –
who requested the pullback. Neither Melanson nor I believed Evans. Kyles,
first of all, was not a member of the King party. He had no connection to
or position in SCLC. He was a local preacher with no authority to request
anything on behalf of the King group. But, if Posner had been aware of Sam
Evan’s claim, then he could have asked Kyles about it. In the past, Kyles
has denied making any such request and doubtless he would have done so on
this occasion. In this instance, he would have been telling the truth.

William Pepper believes
that Billy Kyles could not have made the request to MPD Inspector Sam Evans
because he did not have a connection with SCLC. Even though Kyles had no
connection to SCLC doesn’t mean that Kyles could not have made the request.
Pepper mentions Kyles not being a member of SCLC but doesn’t take into consideration
of Kyles being a MPD informant.[48]
It would be more believable to me that the request was given and followed
up by Evans from a MPD informant instead of a member of SCLC. Clearly there
is enough evidence to suggest that Kyles was involved in wrongdoing moments
prior to Dr. King’s assassination.

Around the same time
Billy Kyles knocks on Dr. King’s door the Invaders are leaving their rooms
located south of Dr. King’s room at the request of Jesse Jackson.[49]
So, we have potential return gunfire and prevention of false pointing from
the Invaders removed from the south of Dr. King’s room at the request of
Jesse while Kyles coming from the north knocks on Dr. King’s door to get
him out on the balcony. After Kyles knocks on Dr. King’s door he makes sure
that he is nowhere close to Dr. King’s room by standing further down the
balcony on the north end. When Dr. King comes out of his room Jesse CRIES
OUT to Dr. King that freezes him. Shortly after being frozen on the balcony
Dr. King is assassinated. The timing of both events by Jesse and Kyles speaks
for itself.

Marty is a Liar!

"The most dangerous criminal
may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The August 26, 2003, issue of the Final Call had one
of the biggest retractions ever published in a newspaper. Never in my entire
life have I read a retraction that covered the entire front page of any
newspaper. Usually when there is a retraction in a publication it is usually
small in size located somewhere inside of the publication. The top of the
front page of the Final Call read, “Final Call retracts allegations
attributed to King family accusing Rev. Jackson & Rev. Kyles, citing
reporter’s lack of fact or proof.” The main body of the front page read,
“Martin Luther King III denies that King family accused Rev. Jesse Jackson
& Rev. Billy Kyles.” I have a problem with those statements. Both of
those statements are FALSE! There is more than enough evidence to prove
both statements as being FALSE! I lost some respect for the Final Call
for printing two false statements on their front page as retractions. I
have absolutely no respect for Martin Luther King III for saying, “My family
has never accused Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Billy Kyles of complicity
in the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.”[50]
I am sure Marty’s father is turning over in his grave because of his son’s
lie.

The King family meeting with former President Clinton and members of his
staff to about having an investigation into Dr. King’s assassination.

The King family initially went to former President Clinton to
have a truth and reconciliation commission created to investigate Dr. King’s
assassination. The commission would have subpoena power and the ability
to grant immunity from prosecution in exchange for the truth.[51]
Former President Clinton did not have a commission created so he had the
Department of Justice (DOJ) deal with the King family’s allegations. On
April 8, 1998, Dexter King, Reverend Walter Fauntroy, Coretta King, and
former UN Ambassador/Trilateral Commission flunky Andrew Young met with
former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and asked for a federal investigation
into Dr. King’s assassination. The King family eventually were able to have
the DOJ to conduct a “limited investigation” on new evidence and allegations.
The following year the King family with William Pepper, as their
trial counsel, filed a wrongful death, civil suit against Loyd Jowers &
Other Unknown Co-Conspirators (case number 97242-4 T.D.).[52]
Asking for only $100 in damages the King family were more concerned with
having evidence and testimony submitted into court records instead of getting
money. The trial started on November 15, 1999, and concluded on December
8, 1999. On December 2, 1999, Billy Kyles was cross-examined by the King
family’s legal team with Yolanda King watching. During Kyles’ cross-examination
by the King family’s legal team Kyles was questioned over his claim to be
in Dr. King’s room during Dr. King’s final hours, a statement made by Kyles
during a speech on the 30th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination,
and Kyles’ claim of retired MPD Captain Willie Richmond being dead.[53]
Clearly the King family’s legal team made Kyles appear suspicious. I wonder
why the King family did not have Jesse Jackson testify at the trial.
Also during the trial on November 16, 1999, the King family’s
legal team had Coby Smith and Charles Cabbage of the Invaders (Black Organizing
Project) testify about the Invaders sudden removal from the Lorraine Motel
moments before Dr. King’s assassination.[54]
During Cabbage’s questioning by the King family’s legal team, he stated
with uncertainty that nobody asked the maid who gave her the instructions
to have the Invaders leave the Lorraine Motel. This of course contradicts
statements made by fellow Invaders Charles Ballard and Charles Harrington,
who stated that the maid said the order came from Jesse Jackson.[55]
Cabbage did state during his testimony that Reverend James Orange told him
that the Invaders’ evacuation came from Jesse Jackson.
After closing arguments a verdict in favor of the King family
was given by the jury. The jury found Loyd Jowers and others including governmental
agencies guilty. The guilty verdict received little mainstream media attention.
The lack of mainstream media attention is only one example of many that
shows how controlled/biased the mainstream media is towards crimes committed
by the U.S. government. Every year around time of Dr. King’s birthday and
assassination you will see the mainstream media promoting these events and
talk about how great a man Dr. King was. But when it comes to issues involving
those who killed Dr. King the mainstream media doesn’t mention anything.
The mainstream media is controlled by the same individuals within the U.S.
government that aided in Dr. King’s assassination. Compare the amount of
media attention given to Jesse’s bloody shirt lie to that of the guilty
verdict from the King v. Jowers trial.
Approximately five months after the King v. Jowers
trial the DOJ completed their “limited investigation” on Dr. King’s assassination
and released a report on their findings.[56]
This report was the end result of the King family asking former President
Clinton to form a truth and reconciliation commission on Dr. King’s assassination.
If the King family doesn’t go to the U.S. government asking for any investigation
into Dr. King’s assassination there is no DOJ report. Dexter King had this
to say about the June 2000 DOJ report on Dr. King’s assassination [emphasis
in bold by Marcus 3X]:[57]

The Justice Department’s report on the new evidence we brought to them
from Jowers and Donald Wilson, a former FBI agent who had found documents
in Ray’s car that had the phone numbers of Ray’s handler, Raul, and for
the Atlanta office of the FBI, came in after the trial. My hope was they
wouldn’t whitewash and attempt to discredit the whole trial, but I thought
that was probably what would happen, and it did.

Clearly in the first sentence Dexter King identifies the King
family as being the source that presented the evidence to DOJ that is responded
to in the June 2000 report. In the last sentence Dexter confirms that some
of the evidence and allegations in the June 2000 report came from the King
v. Jowers trial. Jesse Jackson also confirmed on his website that
the June 2000 DOJ report was produced to satisfy the King family’s request.
In Jesse’s statement he gives the readers the impression that only the U.S.
government was investigated when he in fact he was investigated also. Jesse
knows that the King family had him investigated by the DOJ but makes no
mention of it [emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[58]

In response to today’s release of a report by the Department of Justice
stating that it found no evidence of U.S. government involvement in Dr.
Martin Luther King’s assassination, the Reverend Jesse Jackson issued
the following statement:

We do not believe the findings included in this report. James Earl Ray
perhaps shot King alone, but he did not act alone. James Earl Ray did not
have the money, the mobility, or the motivation to carry out this act on
his own.

…This finding is designed to satisfy the request of Dr. King’s family
for an investigation, but it was neither independent enough, nor well-funded
enough, to provide any new information. Be assured that the American people
will not rest until the truth, no matter where it leads, is finally revealed.

Martin Luther King III and the Final Call wants everyone
to believe that the King family never accused Jesse Jackson and Billy Kyles
of complicity in Dr. King’s assassination. Let’s see what the June 2000
DOJ report says about that [emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[59]

This investigation was not initiated to consider every allegation and
all speculation about the assassination of Dr. King. Rather, the Attorney
General specifically limited the scope of the investigation to Jowers' and
Wilson's recent allegations and logical leads resulting therefrom. We respected
the limits of our mandate, but at various times also considered whether
it should be broadened.

During our investigation, various private parties presented allegations
unrelated to those made by Jowers and Wilson. For example, Dr. Pepper and
Dexter King, Dr. King's son, advised us of their view, which was also advocated
during King v. Jowers, that the federal government and the
United States military, as well as certain African American ministers closely
associated with Dr. King, were involved in the assassination.As
discussed in Section VII, we analyzed these conspiracy allegations and found
they were unsupported by sufficiently credible evidence to warrant further
investigation. Likewise, none of the allegations we received from other
private parties were sufficiently substantiated to justify investigation.

This excerpt from the June 2000 DOJ report CLEARLY states that
allegations against certain African American ministers closely associated
with Dr. King came from William Pepper, Dexter King, and the King
v. Jowers trial. Remember that during the King v. Jowers
trial the plaintiffs were the King family.[60]
Let’s see who the alleged African American ministers are in Section VII
of the report [emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[61]

In November 1999, trial commenced in King v. Jowers, a
wrongful death civil action filed by Dr. Pepper on behalf of Dr. King's
wife and children. Jowers was the only defendant and thus the only other
party to the lawsuit. At the conclusion of the nearly four week trial, the
jury adopted a verdict offered by the parties finding that Jowers and "others,
including government agencies" participated in a conspiracy to assassinate
Dr. King.

…Nonetheless, we examined the trial evidence relating to these far-ranging
conspiracy claims. We found that it was both contradictory and based on
uncorroborated secondhand and thirdhand hearsay accounts. Nor did we find
any credible, concrete facts to substantiate any of the conspiracy allegations.
Because there was no reliable evidence presented at trial relating to a
conspiracy to assassinate Dr. King involving either Jowers, the government,
African American ministers, or anyone else, and because we know of
no information to support such allegations, we find no justification for
further investigation.

To explain our conclusion, we have summarized the trial evidence relating
the purported conspiracies and analyzed that evidence in view of the results
of our investigation and other relevant information that was not presented
in King v. Jowers.

…Dr. Pepper also introduced evidence during the trial to suggest that
two African American ministers, who were associates of Dr. King, conspired
to kill him.Testimony was presented to imply that Dr. King's associates
facilitated the assassination by luring Dr. King to the Lorraine Motel where
he had never stayed, changing his room assignment from an interior to an
exposed balcony room, dismissing a portion of his security, leading him
to the balcony at exactly 6:00 p.m., and leaving him alone and exposed to
allow the assassin an unobstructed shot.

…Evidence was also presented to suggest a plot to facilitate the removal
of Dr. King's security. We discussed most of this trial evidence, along
with other related information not presented in the trial, when we considered
general accusations that security was removed in Section IV.D.2.b. (1) above.
However, two additional pieces of evidence were presented in King
v. Jowers in an effort to suggest that Dr. King's associates assisted
the alleged plot to remove his security.

Philip Mellanson, a professor and author, testified that Memphis
Police Inspector Sam Evans, now deceased, told him that he ordered tactical
units away from the Lorraine at the request of a specific "Memphis
Minister" associated with Dr. King, whom he named.(89)
In addition, other witnesses testified about their belief that the eviction
of the Invaders, a group of young Memphis, African American activists,
from their room at the Lorraine minutes before the shooting facilitated
the assassination. One former Invader, Charles Cabbage, testified
that he was told that another minister, the "SCLC Minister,"
a ranking member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, ordered
that his group be immediately ejected.

We found nothing to support Mellanson's hearsay account that the "Memphis
Minister" was the specific source of the request to remove tactical
units. When we interviewed the "Memphis Minister," he denied
ever making such a request. Moreover, the fact that TACT Unit 10 remained
in the vicinity across the street at the fire station undermines the inference
that the "Memphis Minister" conspired with law enforcement.See Section IV.D.2.b. (1)(a) above.

Likewise, nothing supports a conclusion that the eviction of the Invaders
from the Lorraine, allegedly at the direction of the "SCLC Minister,"
is related to the assassination. We found no evidence that the Invaders
had anything to do with Dr. King's security. Rather, according to associates
of Dr. King and former Memphis police officers, the Invaders were
young, African American activists who were attempting to associate with
Dr. King. Accordingly, even if the Invaders were evicted from the Lorraine
by the "SCLC Minister" or some other SCLC staff person, such action
would not have diminished Dr. King's security.

Moreover, Charles Cabbage's recent trial testimony is inconsistent with
his testimony to the HSCA. Twenty years ago, Cabbage testified that did
not recollect the specific sequence of events leading to the Invaders' departure
from the Lorraine but that they decided to leave on their
own because the SCLC would not pay their room bill. Cabbage told the HSCA
that "one of the [SCLC] staffers," whose name he did not provide,
somehow advised him that "they [the SCLC] were no longer going to pay
for the room, and we [the Invaders] were already overdue and that left no
alternative but for us to check out."

Cabbage's recent testimony is also uncorroborated and contrary to the
recollections of others. Significantly, in Cabbage's recent testimony in
King v. Jowers, he claimed that it was Reverend James Orange
who evicted the Invaders, telling him that the "SCLC Minister"
wanted them to leave immediately. When we spoke with Orange
after the trial, he told us he did not recall receiving that instruction
from the "SCLC Minister" or anyone else. Also, when we interviewed
the "SCLC Minister," a friend and associate of Dr. King's, who
has led a life of public service, he denied the accusation and claimed that
he did not recall that the Invaders were even staying at the Lorraine.
We are aware of nothing to contradict his denial. Accordingly, the record
does not support the inference presented at trial that African American
ministers associated with Dr. King facilitated the assassination by removing
his security.

During the trial, the "Memphis Minister" was also called as
a witness and questioned so as to create the impression that he had deliberately
lured Dr. King to the balcony of the Lorraine at precisely 6:00 p.m. and
left him exposed and alone so that he could be shot. This claim is consistent
with the view expressed to us by Dr. Pepper and Dexter King prior to trial.
To support this contention, the plaintiffs' attorney questioned the "Memphis
Minister" regarding his conduct before the shooting and confronted
him with words from his speech at ceremonies commemorating an anniversary
of the assassination. In the speech, as he described the events of the assassination,
the "Memphis Minister" recounted that just before the shot
he "moved away [from Dr. King] so he [the assassin] could have a clear
shot."

According to a number of witnesses interviewed by our investigation and
previous investigations, Dr. King walked out of Room 306 onto the balcony
of the Lorraine just before 6:00 p.m. in the company of the"Memphis
Minister." Dr. King conversed with several of his other associates,
who were assembled in the parking lot below as they all were preparing to
go to dinner. When the "Memphis Minister" walked a few steps
away from Dr. King, the assassin fired. As discussed in Section IV.D.1.a.(1)
above, we determined that Dr. King's appearance on the balcony at 6:00 p.m.
for a 5:00 p.m. dinner engagement could not have been anticipated with enough
certainty to plan the time of the assassination.

The notion that the "Memphis Minister" was involved in
the assassination and inadvertently revealed his participation during a
public speech is far-fetched. The minister's comment, "I moved away
so he could have a clear shot," considered in the context of his
speech, appears nothing more than an inartful attempt to explain the sequence
of events and the fact that Dr. King was shot when he moved away from the
speaker's side. It hardly amounts to an inadvertent confession.

In any event, we are aware of no information to support the accusation
that the "Memphis Minister" led Dr. King to the balcony
and moved away to allow the assassin to shoot. We confronted the "Memphis
Minister" with the accusation and he denied it. We are also aware
of nothing that would have motivated him to assist a conspiracy to murder
a friend and associate, while his public life demonstrates his integrity
and dedication to non-violence.

This excerpt also identifies the source of the allegations
against certain African American ministers came from the King family and
William Pepper, the King family’s trial counsel. The DOJ report used code
names to conceal the identities of Jesse Jackson as the “SCLC Minister”
and Billy Kyles as the “Memphis Minister.” The DOJ report “cleared” Kyles
as being the source for the TACT 10 removal from the Lorraine Motel and
luring Dr. King onto the balcony. The DOJ apparently didn’t take into consideration
that Kyles was identified as a MPD informant making him more credible of
a source to have the TACT 10 units removed from the Lorraine Motel. The
DOJ suggested that the removal of the TACT 10 units from the Lorraine Motel
to a fire station, located across the street, wasn’t a big issue since they
were still in close proximity. It is a big issue considering that the TACT
10 units would have been in a better position to identify the exact position
of the assassin if they were not part of the plot to assassinate Dr. King.
Lastly, the DOJ admitted that Dexter King told them that he felt that Kyles
lured his father on the balcony to be assassinated. The DOJ concluded in
their investigation that Kyles came unto the balcony with Dr. King from
306 and then stepped away from Dr. King moments before the assassination.
That story contradicts eyewitness testimony by Ralph Abernathy and retired
MPD Captain Willie Richmond. Both men stated that Kyles was never in Dr.
King’s room. The DOJ report doesn’t mention Willie, who testified as a witness
on behalf of the King family at the King v. Jowers trial.
I believe they made no mention of Willie’s testimony in the report because
it shows without any questions that Kyles was NOT in Dr. King’s room during
that final hour. Check out Willie’s testimony during cross-examination by
the King family’s legal counsel, William Pepper [emphasis in bold by Marcus
3X]:[62]

…Q. Now, when Dr. King arrived in the city for that last visit, were you
at the airport?
A. I was.
Q. Did you have a conversation with anyone connected with either his
group or with the local clergy having to do with security or protection
for him on that last visit?
A. I didn't, but my partner did.
Q. Your partner did. Were you present when that conversation was taking
place?
A. I was there.
Q. And with whom was the conversation?
A. I believe he spoke with Reverend Kyles.
Q. Reverend Samuel Kyles? A. Right.
Q. And what was the gist of the conversation with respect to security protection
for Dr. King?
A. At that time we was told that Dr. King hadn't wanted any police protection.
Q. You were told that Dr. King didn't want any protection.
A. Police protection.
Q. Any police protection. And this was told to you in this conversation
by Reverend Kyles? A. I think it was Reverend Kyles. I'm not sure, but I believe it
was Reverend Kyles. He was the one that said it I believe.
Q. He was the one who said it you believe?
A. Uh-huh.
Q. Were you familiar with what position Reverend Kyles held in Dr. King's
organization? A. No, I was not.
Q. And you didn't know he held no position in Dr. King's organization?
A. I did not.
Q. If you'll move on to page 3 of your statement, Captain Richmond, about
two-thirds of the way down the page, do you notice your note? And I'll read
it. "At 2:05 p.m. Reverend Samuel Kyles arrived and
went to room 307 and departed at 2:23 p.m." You see
that note?
A. Yes.
Q. Do you know who was in room 307 at that time?
A. Well, at that time, no, I did not.
Q. Let's move on to page 4, please.
A. (Witness complies.)
Q. The first full paragraph. Would you read the first full paragraph starting
at "at approximately 5:50 p.m." to us, please?
A. Okay. It says, "Approximately 5:50 p.m., John Smith,
Milton Max, Charles Cabbage and one female colored and approximately six
or seven more of the Invaders opened the door of their rooms, and I
could see them gathering their belongings. They then brought them down the
stairs and placed them in the trunk of a light blue Mustang, license number
BL 3750, and they left the motel. They was going west on Butler to Main."
Q. If I could just interrupt you there. So at 5:50 p.m.,
your eye witness recording sees the Invaders just bustling out of -- hustling
out of that motel, leaving the hotel? A. They left.
Q. And that's within 11 minutes of the shooting?
A. Approximately.
Q. Would you continue reading the next paragraph, please?
A. "Immediately after the Invaders left, the Reverend Samuel Kyles
came out of room 312 and went to the room where Martin Luther King was living.
He knocked on the door and Martin Luther King came to the door. They said
a few words between each other and Reverend Martin Luther King went back
into his room closing the door behind him, and the Reverend Samuel Kyles
remained on the porch." Q. Right. So you're telling us there from your eye witness report
that Reverend Kyles knocked on Martin Luther King's door at about ten minutes
to six or shortly after ten minutes to six, said a few words to Dr. King
after he opened the door. Then when the door was closed, Dr. King went back
into his room and Reverend Kyles remained on the -- you call it the porch,
but on the balcony? A. The balcony.
Q. Now, a little further down in the next paragraph, you record Martin Luther
King coming out onto the balcony. Do you see that reference there? And if
you could read from the words "at this time the Reverend Martin Luther
King returned. " Do you see that?
A. I see it.
Q. Would you read that note, please? Middle of the next paragraph.
A. Okay. "At this time Reverend Martin Luther King returned from
his room to the gallery and walked up to the handrail. The Reverend Kyles
was standing off to his right. This was approximately 6 p.m.
At this time I heard a loud sound as if it was a shot and saw Doctor Martin
Luther King fall back on the handrail and put his hand up to his head. …Q. Nowhere in these notes do you record Reverend Kyles going into
Reverend King's room 45 minutes, an hour before the shooting, do you?
A. No, I don't. Q. And if he had done so, is it fair to say that you would have recorded
this entry?
A. I recorded pretty much everything that went on. I don't have my notebook
now, but we carried little small notebooks.
Q. Right.
A. And I wrote everything down as I saw it.
Q. As you saw it?
A. As I saw it.
Q. That was your duty.
A. Correct.

Willie Richmond’s testimony proves that Billy Kyles was interested in Dr.
King not having any police security on the same day MPD Inspector Sam Evans
claimed to receive orders to move the TACT 10 units from the Lorraine Motel
by Kyles. William Pepper stated in his two books on Dr. King’s assassination
that he did not believe Kyles gave Sam instructions to remove TACT 10 units
from the Lorraine Motel because he had no position within SCLC. Considering
that Kyles was identified as a MPD informant as well as telling Willie and
his partner that Dr. King did not want police protection on April 3, 1968,
makes me believe that Sam was telling the truth. Now you see why the DOJ
report did not attempt to discredit Willie’s testimony.
As far as Jesse Jackson is concerned the DOJ report “cleared”
Jesse as being the source for the Invaders sudden evacuation by attacking
Charles Cabbage’s testimony at the King v. Jowers trial. As
I stated earlier Cabbage’s testimony concerning whether or not Jesse was
the source of their removal appeared questionable. Using Cabbage’s questionable
testimony allowed the DOJ to “clear” Jesse of any wrongdoing. The primary
sources for Jesse being the one to give the orders to the maid for the Invaders
evacuation was Charles Harrington and Charles Ballard not Cabbage. The DOJ
report goes on to say that the Invaders were not part of Dr. King’s security
and that their removal from the Lorraine Motel did not diminish Dr. King’s
security. The DOJ report did not mention that the Invaders were armed thus
making them having the potential to return gunfire at the assassin. To suggest
that the armed Invaders served as no security to Dr. King is absurd. If
the Invaders were on the balcony they would have been in a position to return
gunfire and prevent the false pointing initiated by MPD informant Marrell
McCollough to the rooming house.
When Jesse Jackson was interviewed by the DOJ he told them that
he did not have anything to do with the Invaders’ evacuation and did not
remember that they were staying at the Lorraine Motel. The DOJ followed
up by stating that they were not aware of nothing to contradict Jesse’s
claim. I have BREAKING NEWS. In my possession I have two separate declassified
FBI files with the United States Department of Justice at the top stating
that Jesse met with the Invaders on April 2 and 3, 1968. The first FBI file
dated April 5, 1968, states the following [emphasis in bold by Marcus 3X]:[63]

…According to Lieutenant Arkin’s source, another group involving the
BOP met at the Lorraine Motel at 9 p.m. on the night of April 2, 1968, with
all of the abovementioned individuals present, including Jesse Jackson
who is in charge of “Operation Breadbasket, North” of the SCLC. Here
the BOP group headed by complained that Reverend James Morris Lawson, Jr.,
pastor of the Centenary Methodist Church, Memphis, who had been their main
liaison with the COME and the strike support group, was ineffectual as Cabbage
said “All he deal in is theory. He is not a guy for strategy and action
and is inadequate for our program.”

…This source stated that Reverend Jesse Jackson said that he was present
to ascertain who BOP wanted to sponsor them in the future or be their liaison
and they all agreed that Reverend S.B. Kyles of the Monumental Baptist
Church would be a good man.

This FBI file proves that Jesse Jackson lied when he stated he did not
know that the Invaders (BOP) was staying at the Lorraine Motel. Jesse met
with the Invaders and played a key role of assigning MPD informant Billy
Kyles as their new liaison. You can see how Jesse and Kyles positioned themselves
to be instrumental in Dr. King’s assassination. Another declassified FBI
file also states that Jesse met with the Invaders on April 3, 1968 [emphasis
in bold by Marcus 3X]:[64]

…Lieutenant Arkin’s source also reported that at the Lorraine Hotel
on April 3, 1968, John Burrell Smith and Charles Cabbage, along with other
BOP personnel, personally met with Dr. King and his staff;…Lieutenant
Arkin’s source further stated that at about 4 p.m., April 3, 1968,
King met with the BOP group and that among those meeting were Martin Luther
King, Jr., John Burrell Smith, Charles Cabbage, and one Oree McKenzie, a
young Negro male. Also at the meeting were Edwina Harrell and a young man
called Phil. Jesse Jackson, Hosea Williams, and Andrew J. Young all
of the SCLC staff were also at the meeting.

Why did Jesse Jackson lie to the DOJ when he stated that he did not recall
the Invaders staying at the Lorraine Motel? Why didn’t the DOJ pick up on
Jesse’s lie when their files state that Jesse met with the Invaders on April
2 and 3, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel? In the DOJ report you will notice
that Jesse is looked upon as a Good Samaritan when they described him as
someone that has led a life of public service. By the DOJ saying
that about Jesse they are suggesting that his character doesn’t fit the
profile of someone that would conspire to have Dr. King assassinated. It
is obvious that Jesse and the DOJ are working together. The DOJ report is
a joke. The DOJ is part of the same network that had Dr. King assassinated.
Nobody should have expected any truth in the report.
I personally believe Jesse Jackson and Billy Kyles were involved
in Dr. King’s assassination. Their activities/movements/constant lying surrounding
the event and failure to address the allegations publicly makes me suspicious
of them. If I was Dr. King’s friend and allegations came out against me
I would go out my to discredit all allegations publicly. There would be
no doubt in anyone’s mind about me being involved in any wrongdoing. Jesse
and Kyles are making the right move by not addressing these allegations
publicly. They will never address these allegations publicly because they
know what they did was wrong.
I am totally disgusted with Martin Luther King III. If anything
he showed his weakness dealing with the pressures that comes with exposing
the truth. He knows that his family believes Jesse Jackson and Billy Kyles
were involved in Dr. King’s assassination. If Dr. King were my father I
wouldn’t rest until the murderers of my father were brought to justice.
Even if some of the alleged conspirators were highly respected individuals
within the black community I would still put pressure on them publicly.
This is too serious of an issue to run away from. You have to stand up like
a man and deal with the truth. Marty is a punk and I don’t care what anyone
says. I have the video of the SCLC panel discussion on Dr. King’s assassination
that was held on August 4, 2003, in Memphis, Tennessee. The panel consisted
of Martin Luther King III, Steve Cokely, William Pepper, Dick Gregory, Eric
Muhammad, and others. During the panel discussion Jesse and Kyles were talked
about more than anyone else. Get the video and you will see Marty &
Bernice King state that everything said during the panel discussion was
the truth.[65]
Marty played a role in getting Steve to participate in the panel discussion.
If Marty did not believe that Jesse and Kyles were not involved in his father’s
death why would he have Steve participate in the panel discussion? Marty
is familiar with Steve’s research. If he didn’t agree with Steve’s research
he would have never had Steve there. The June 2000 DOJ report proves Marty
is a liar! The video of the SCLC panel discussion on Dr. King’s assassination
proves Marty is a liar! The trial transcripts found on the King family’s
website proves Marty is a Liar![66]
Marty, you are a fat punk that needs his ass whipped. According to your
brother you are the WORLD’S FOREMOST TATTLETALE.[67]
Your weakness cleared any suspicions a lot of people may have had about
Jesse and Kyles.
I really don’t know what to make of the Final Call. To
have two lies on the front page as retractions is not good. To say that
the reporter lacked fact or proof let’s me know that the Final Call
staff did not check to see if there was any supporting evidence or they
intentionally ignored the evidence. I believe that they intentionally ignored
the evidence. To satisfy Jesse Jackson and others the Final Call
retracted the Dr. King assassination story and sacrificed James Muhammad
and Eric Muhammad. Those two men worked too hard for the newspaper to be
sacrificed because of one “incorrectly” written sentence. Their departure
from the newspaper is deeper than the official story. If Donna Muhammad
was a co-author of the story that caused so much controversy why is there
no mention of her anywhere? I believe there is a lot of politics going on
behind the scenes between Minister Farrakhan, the King family, and Jesse.
If I mailed the Final Call all of the evidence I have proving that
the King family did allege Jesse and Billy Kyles of complicity in Dr. King’s
assassination do you think they would retract the retraction? No! Let’s
see what Jesse and Akbar Muhammad had to say about the controversy [emphasis
in bold by Marcus 3X]:[68]

…In an interview with the NNPA News Service, Jackson said: "I don't
want to respond because there's nothing to respond to. I don't know why
they did what they did, but I am glad Farrakhan and Leonard (Muhammad, the
Nation of Islam's chief of staff), when they saw it, knew that it was wrong
and they retracted it. That's good enough."

"We have to build relationships, we have to deal with people in
public life and the minister was a victim of the very same thing himself
in the case of Malcolm X," said Akbar Muhammad, the minister's
long-time assistant and now his international representative, based in Ghana.
"And for our newspaper to follow in the footsteps of those who wanted
to make him the enemy of the Black community by accusing him of being involved
in the assassination of Malcolm and then we turn around and allow our paper
to do the same thing to one of our brothers was unacceptable."

Once again you see Jesse
Jackson refusing to respond to allegations of him being involved in Dr.
King’s assassination. He will never respond to the allegations because he
knows that they are true and the King family are suspicious of him. The
DOJ would have never questioned Jesse if the King family would not have
brought the allegations to their attention. Akbar Muhammad is correct about
building relationships but we can’t have relationships with individuals
that conspired to have one of our greatest leaders killed. You (Akbar) can’t
ignore the evidence. At least Minister Farrakhan has addressed the allegations
against him publicly in regards to Malcolm X’s assassination. Jesse won’t
address the allegations against him publicly. Jesse is an enemy of the Black
community and the Final Call did the right thing by exposing him
in the original Dr. King assassination article. There is absolutely nothing
wrong with exposing a conspirator of murder with the FACTS! I am happy to
know that there are magazines like Frontline and Da Ghetto Tymz
that won’t compromise the truth. I would highly recommend people get all
video lectures on Dr. King’s assassination by Corey Johnson (bogardem@yahoo.com)
and Steve Cokely (www.stevecokely.com). They have the best research on the
subject. Thanks for reading and continue to support independent news outlets.

[1]SCLC Returns to Memphis by Eric Ture Muhammad and Donna Muhammad,
The Final Call, August 19, 2003

[7]
Go to www.thekingcenter.org
and click on the link News & Information. On the next page click
on the link Trial Transcripts. Once on this page read the testimony
of Philip Melanson and Charles Cabbage. Also on the same page read the link
at the bottom The Trial from William Pepper’s An Act of State.